TRUSTEES
Tasneem Aziz Ahmadi is a distinguished legal professional with a career spanning four decades. With a rich background in contracts, litigation and arbitration, she has represented clients across diverse legal domains such as telecom disputes, corporate litigation, intellectual property rights, food safety, antiquities and art, and environmental law.
Tasneem has also contributed through papers on environmental law and the rights of the girl child. Additionally, she has appeared before arbitral tribunals, served on the panel of editors for Indian Law Reports for five years, and was on the panel of the Union of India in the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court for six years. Her expertise spans across a wide spectrum of legal matters, from constitutional law and corporate litigation including infrastructural projects to environmental law, property disputes and waqf matters.
Huzefa Aziz Ahmadi is an accomplished legal professional practicing before the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India since 1991. With extensive experience in litigation and arbitration, he has represented clients across diverse legal domains, including constitutional law, civil and criminal matters, tax disputes, and administrative law.
He holds the esteemed designation of Senior Advocate conferred by the Supreme Court of India in 2012. Additionally, he actively contributes to legal education and service, serving on committees such as the Screening Committee of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee since September 2016, and the Board of Examiners for the Advocates-on-Record Examination in the Supreme Court of India since May 2017.
Insiyah Vahanvaty is an independent Indian journalist, commentator, and scholar with an interest in the subjects of minority rights, media studies, hate politics, gender and caste-based violence, particularly institutionalised human rights violations in racial and religious contexts.
Her analyses and commentaries on right-wing politics and on the geopolitical implications of domestic political ideologies and policies are published in Indian newspapers and publications abroad, as well as by international think tanks and geopolitical advisory firms. Her recent scholarship includes co-authoring a paper titled “Ethnonationalist Drivers of the Indian Media Truth Telling Crisis”, published in Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics in 2024. She recently published her first book – “The Fearless Judge”, a biography of her grandfather, Justice A. M. Ahmadi.
Shaurya Roy is a dynamic entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in managing and developing businesses in the metallurgical consumables industry in India, the Middle East, and Africa.
As a partner in Shri Balaji Ceramic Products and Shri Balaji Impex, he oversees the operations of six manufacturing units related to the production of high-temperature refractories and foundry consumables. The Balaji Group currently stands as a market leader in specialized refractories for induction furnaces and continuous casters. With a Master’s in Business Administration from the Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, Shaurya combines his academic foundation with practical business acumen to lead successful ventures.